The Royal Palace Motel on Colorado Boulevard has stood vacant for more than a decade, and this week it was demolished.

The motel has stood at 1565 Colorado Blvd., just north of Colfax Avenue, since 1969, and on Tuesday, the building met its fateful end.

Populus, a sustainably-focused hotel, has arrived in Denver. Yoshihiro Makino A tree grows in Denver. Or, rather, a hotel that evokes one of Colorado’s iconic aspen trees has sprouted in the ...